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[email protected] · March 4th 16, 11:34 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Thu, 03 Mar 2016 16:19:01 -0600,
wrote:

In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On 2016-03-03 14:45:58 +0000, Mizter T said:

No need for that level of complexity - you already said it, "a
second touch-in free" - i.e. one free transfer - within a time
limit. No people 'restarting the clock' like that.

Why only one? I can change as many times as I wish on a Tube
journey. It is not out of the question that the quickest way to do a
particular journey may be three buses (though four is heading towards
the proverbial goat herding), or Tube-bus-bus or bus-Tube-bus or
whatever.

A single journey should be, like it is in Hamburg, a single journey.
No matter what you use to do it, it is one fare for a journey from
point A to point B.

Hence Caroline's proposal for a one hour bus ticket. Routes could be so
much simpler if changing buses wasn't penalised.

I appreciate you're going to support her policies but depending on the
scale of discount offered for a one hour ticket you are looking at
something like £70m pa cost. That's a lot of money when the bus
budget is likely to be savaged as a result of the revenue grant going.
I am also not aware that Caroline is proposing a related restructuing
of the bus network by removing through services and enforced
interchange. Depending on where you make that sort of change you may
well get a riot on your hands especially if older people lose through
services where today they have one. The existence of a 1 hour ticket
is irrelevant to those people.

There were so many more through services in my youth. Almost all the Putney
services I knew were split into at least two years ago. The splits were
presumably done for cost reasons. So doing so without penalising passengers
financially should save money in the end.

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Colin Rosenstiel